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adjustment 音標拼音: [ədʒ'ʌstmənt] n. 調整,調節,校正 調整,調節,校正 adjustment調整 adjustment調整 adjustment n 1: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [ synonym: { adjustment}, { accommodation}, { fitting}] 2: the act of making something different ( as e. g. the size of a garment) [ synonym: { alteration}, { modification}, { adjustment}] 3: the act of adjusting something to match a standard [ synonym: { adjustment}, { registration}, { readjustment}] 4: the process of adapting to something ( such as environmental conditions) [ synonym: { adaptation}, { adaption}, { adjustment}] 5: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; " an allowance for profit" [ synonym: { allowance}, { adjustment}] Adjustment \ Ad* just" ment\ (- ment), n. [ Cf. F. ajustement. See { Adjust}.] 1. The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. [ 1913 Webster] Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. -- Paley. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Law) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set- off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. -- Bispham. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Suiting; fitting; arrangement; regulation; settlement; adaptation; disposition. 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The adjustment of a loss is the settling andascertaining the amount of the indemnity which the insured after all properallowances and deductions have been made, is entitled to receive, and theproportion of this, which each underwriter is liable to pay, under thepolicy Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 14, p. 617 or it is a written admission of theamounts of the loss as settled between the parties to a policy of insurance. 3 Stark. Ev. 1167, 8. 2. In adjusting a loss, the first thing to be considered is, how thequantity of damages for which the underwriters are liable, shall beascertained. When a loss is a total loss, and the insured decides toabandon, he must give notice of this to the underwriters iii a reasonabletime, otherwise he will waive his right to abandon, and must be content toclaim only for a partial loss. Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 3, s. 2; 15 East, 559; 1 T. R. 608; 9 East, 283; 13 East 304; 6 Taunt. 383. When the loss isadmitted to be total, and the policy is a valued one, the insured isentitled to receive the whole sum insured, subject to such deductions as mayhave been agreed by the policy to be made in case of loss. 3. The quantity of damages being known, the next point to be settled, is, by what rule this shall be estimated. The price of a thing does notafford a just criterion to ascertain its true value. It may have been boughtvery dear or very cheap. The circumstances of time and place cause acontinual variation in the price of things. For this reason, in cases ofgeneral average, the things saved contribute not according to prune cost, but according to the price for which they may be sold at the time ofsettling the average. Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 14, s. 2, p. 621; Laws ofWisbury, art. 20 Laws of Oleron, art. 8 this Dict. tit. Price. And see 4 Dall. 430; 1Caines' R. 80; 2 S. & R. 229 2 S.& R. 257, 258. 4. An adjustment being endorsed on the policy, and signed by theunderwriters, with the promise to pay in a given time, is prima facieevidence against them, and amounts to an admission of all the factsnecessary to be proved by the insured to entitle him to recover in an actionon the policy. It is like a note of hand, and being proved, the insured hasno occasion to go into proof of any other circumstances. Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 14, s. 3, p. 632; 3 Stark. Ev. 1167, 8 Park. ch. 4; Wesk. Ins, 8; Beaw. Lex. Mer. 310; Com. Dig. Merchant, E 9; Abbott on Shipp. 346 to 348. SeeDamages. |
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